Rome - Via dei Fori Imperiali

This six-lane highway, built by Mussolini in 1932, runs from the Capitol to the Colosseum, passing along one side of the Forum. In 1980 the city council, giving priority to archeology over traffic, decided to remove the road and thus make it possible to excavate the remains of the great days of the Empire which lie concealed under its 64,000sq.m/76,500sq.yd of asphalt.